Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko was born in Lubny*. Awarded the IM title and WIM title in 1950 and the WGM title in 1976, she was the 2nd Women's World Champion 1950-53. Early on, Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky coached her - followed by Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush and Grigory Levenfish after the war.
She was also USSR Women's Champion in 1952. Rudenko died in 1986 (on the 26th of February, according to Russian Wikipedia).

zanzibar: Have to admit that I didn't recognize her name. Here's all the mention that Soltis gives her in his <Soviet Chess> book:

<Development (1950-1961): Beginning around 1950, women's chess was taken more seriously, particularly in Leningrad. A top trainer, Alexander Konstantinopolsky, devoted himself to women's chess from 1954 to 1976 and helped a generally older generation of women, in their late 40s (<Ludmilla Rudenko>, Elizaveta Bykova, Olga Rubtsova), to dominate Soviet events and eventually the world women's championship. <<>>>

OhioChessFan: FWIW, I am running a Rybka eval of a game just to make sure I am not missing anything. There is a great game in her repetoire that I think has a pretty interesting move that is maybe a Wednesday/Thursday POTD position. I'm pretty sure it's solid but I'll let the engine idiot proof my analysis.

<In World War II, Rudenko organized a train to evacuate children from the Siege of Leningrad. She described this as the most important accomplishment in her life.[2]

Rudenko became the swimming champion of Odessa in the 400-metre (1,300 ft) breaststroke. In 1925, she was swimming vice-champion of Ukraine (breaststroke).[2] She started a career as an economic planner for the Soviet Union, and chess became a hobby.[2][3][4] >

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